Publication Date:
2012-02-22
Description:
Supramolecular polymers can be random and entangled coils with the mechanical properties of plastics and elastomers, but with great capacity for processability, recycling, and self-healing due to their reversible monomer-to-polymer transitions. At the other extreme, supramolecular polymers can be formed by self-assembly among designed subunits to yield shape-persistent and highly ordered filaments. The use of strong and directional interactions among molecular subunits can achieve not only rich dynamic behavior but also high degrees of internal order that are not known in ordinary polymers. They can resemble, for example, the ordered and dynamic one-dimensional supramolecular assemblies of the cell cytoskeleton and possess useful biological and electronic functions.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291483/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291483/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Aida, T -- Meijer, E W -- Stupp, S I -- 2R01DE015920-06/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/ -- 2R01EB003806-06A2/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- R01 DE015920/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/ -- R01 DE015920-06/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/ -- R01 EB003806/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- R01 EB003806-06A2/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Feb 17;335(6070):813-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1205962.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22344437" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Biomimetic Materials/chemistry
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Forecasting
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Humans
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Molecular Structure
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Nanofibers
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Nanotubes
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*Polymers/chemistry
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Semiconductors
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Signal Transduction
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
